Time, media and modernity
By: edited by Emily Keightley
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780230276703
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Social aspects; Time perception in mass media; Time in mass media; Psychological aspects; Time perception
Description: " A wide ranging, interdisciplinary exploration of media time and mediated temporalities. The chapters explore the diverse ways in which time is articulated by media technologies, the way time is constructed, represented and communicated in cultural texts, and how it is experienced in different social contexts and environments."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; E. Keightley ; PART I: TIMES OF MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES Sonic Horizons: Phonograph Aesthetics and the Experience of Time; M. Pickering The Times of Photography; M. Lister PART II: TIMES OF MEDIA CONTENT Temporality and Documentary; J. Corner Cinematic Temporality: Modernity, Memory and the Nearness of the Past; A. Landsberg Hello to All That: 'Credit Crunches', 'Great Depressions' and Journalistic Retrojection; D. Deacon PART III: GLOBAL TEMPORALITIES City Times: Negotiating Public Space in the 21st Century City; S. McQuire Globital Time: Time in the Digital Globalized Age; A. Reading PART IV: LOCAL TEMPORALITIES Present Memories: Indigenous Memory Constructs and Cross-generational Knowledge Exchange in Northern Australia; A. Kearney ; Domestic Time in the Sensory Home: the Textures and Rhythms of Knowing, Practice, Memory and Imagination; S. Pink ; Conclusion Making Time: The Social Temporalities of Mediated Experience; E. Keightley.